Brian Baker Quotes
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Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
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There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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I first learned the power of trust in the CIA. There is no question that when I joined the Agency as a covert operations officer, it was still run along the 'old boys' network' model.
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Don't get me wrong – I've gone to a club. But I'd much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I'll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug!
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I'm obsessed with Juice Press - they're everywhere. I spend so much money at that place it's crazy.
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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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I think the fact that we, as writers, don't engage with resource-level questions is a symptom of our society where we just don't know where our stuff comes from.
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We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.
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I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.
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I was a bit of a rebel.
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If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.
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I always have said from the beginning of my career that I was going for the 'Geek Trifecta' because I'm such a total geek. I want to be in everything that has to do with the things that I enjoyed when I was a kid, which was 'Battlestar Galactica,' and being in 'Big Bang Theory,' and being in video games.
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Sometimes we need to let go of things in our lives to make room for better things. Stress less and live more. Don't waste your energy, when you have the choice to be happy.
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If we taught children to speak, they'd never learn.
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My cousin Joey played the drums. We used to go to his house, I liked beating on his drums. I beat the hell out of 'em, you know? Finally in 1961, I don't know, I guess I was about 15, I got serious about it. My parents bought me a little drum set and I was playing for about 6 months when I started doing gigs.
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When I said I didn't have a cent, I didn't. I used to get annoyed with people who said they were broke when they had five dollars.
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Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace.
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The message is, 'You're not welcome here -- you have to go there,'
